My only visit to the Grand Old Dame by the Sea came in May of 1984 as a result of my husband having qualified to attend The Leaders Conference being held at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. The conference was a once-a-year celebration for highest sales achievers within the financial services industry. We were not quite twenty-six years old and had been married for four years. When I told a well-traveled friend that I was headed to the Hotel del Coronado, she said, “Juls, you’re going to love it. It’s an absolutely gorgeous old Victorian hotel. It’s an…